• Malfeasant@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Tell that to the high voltage power lines I go for bike rides under… There’s no visible ionization, but I can feel tingling in my hands and sometimes nuts…

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      3 months ago

      Yeah it’s not enough to heat up the air enough to arc, likely because the vast majority of it is going through the conductive wire it’s supposed to be